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If you focus exclusively on problem-solving, you're bound to miss opportunities to improve and innovate, writes Edward de Bono. Problem-oriented thinking stops when a satisfactory solution is found, but it's often possible to go further and find options that are more than merely satisfactory. "There are often more answers than just one," de Bono writes. "So we need to develop the habit of continuing to think about the matter even when we have an adequate answer."

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It you want happy, productive employees, it's up to you to treat them with respect and positivity, writes Duane Dike. "When leaders think and focus on petty little things to the point of being annoying, employees feel the pain of that small thinking and react in destructive ways," Dike writes.

Sharp has fired up a multiplatform effort to promote its longtime commitment to solar energy. The campaign includes a TV ad describing the company's half-century of solar energy innovations and uses the tagline "Sharp Solar. The sun is the answer."

Companies tend to see creativity as something mysterious and uncontrollable, but you "can deliberately generate new ideas," writes Edward de Bono. Creativity can be taught, generated and nurtured, he argues -- and that means companies should treat innovation as a practical matter deserving serious attention from a dedicated C-suite executive.

Companies tend to see creativity as something mysterious and uncontrollable, but you "can deliberately generate new ideas," writes Edward de Bono. Creativity can be taught, generated and nurtured, he argues -- and that means companies should treat innovation as a practical matter deserving serious attention from a dedicated C-suite executive.

When job interviewing, quiz managers about challenges they face, then explain how your past experiences and current skills will help solve those problems, Scot Herrick writes. Just remember to be humble because managers "like it less when the stranger they are talking to thinks they know the answer."